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Ski Resorts in Fukui
Fukui has 3 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 895 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Ski area map
No snow marks yet. The dots are ski areas; once it starts snowing, places with 3cm+ in 48 hours get a mark.
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Snow in Fukui
The 3 ski areas in Fukui get 300 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 8th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Fukui Izumi Ski Resort at 315 cm, 143rd in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 35% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 36 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 29% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.1°C, and 25 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than the national median of 16%, and it is warmer than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Fukui Izumi Ski Resort, 235th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 171 cm.
All ski areas in Fukui
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fukui Izumi Ski Resort top 895 m · 6 runs | 315 cm | #235 | 895 m | 6 |
| 2 | Kuzuryu Ski Resort top 675 m · 8 runs | 300 cm | #296 | 675 m | 8 |
| 3 | Imajo 365 top 754 m · 12 runs | 249 cm | #323 | 754 m | 12 |
Compare the top three (Fukui Izumi Ski Resort, Kuzuryu Ski Resort, Imajo 365) →
Ski area webcams in Fukui
3 ski areas, those with a camera on the slopes first. Each name opens the camera section of that ski area's page.
Ski areas near Fukui
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Fukui (up to 21 km).
With only 3 ski areas in Fukui, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Yogo Kogen Resort in Shiga, about 3 km away. The snowiest of these is Dynaland in Gifu at 322 cm a season, about the same as Fukui Izumi Ski Resort, the snowiest in Fukui (315 cm).
Deep snow close to a city
Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.
Snowfall is the 12-winter average from the ERA5 reanalysis, and the model runs low on mountain snow, by different amounts in different regions (the regional map on the Japan page adds that difference back; the figures on this page do not). Read the ranks and the comparisons rather than the centimetres. The month-by-month pattern uses the last 12 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure